“Apple has clarified reports regarding the use of Sun’s ZFS file system in Leopard, confirming that ZFS is present in the operating system but that Apple has not yet made it the default file system,” Tom Krazit reports in CNET’s News Blog.
“Leopard will support two file systems, the HFS+ technology currently found in Mac OS X, as well as ZFS, a next-generation file system developed by Sun and unveiled in 2005. However, HFS+ will remain the default option,” Krazit reports.
“At some point, Apple will likely make ZFS the default file system for Mac OS X, but Sun hasn’t even gotten around to doing that yet for Solaris 10,” Krazit reports. “These transitions can take years.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Bev M.” for the heads up.]
Thomas Claburn reports for InformationWeek, “ZFS ‘is only available a read-only option from the command line,’ according to an Apple spokesperson.”
“Brian Croll, senior director of Mac OS X Product Marketing explained, ‘ZFS is not the default file system for Leopard. We are exploring it as a file system option for high-end storage systems with really large storage. As a result, we have included ZFS — a read-only copy of ZFS — in Leopard. Read-only means that at a later date, if there are ZFS volumes, those systems would be able to read ZFS volumes. You cannot write data into the system. It will allow you to read ZFS volumes later,'” Claburn reports.
Claburn reports, “Asked whether ZFS might be implemented for Apple’s Xserve rack mountable server line, Croll said, ‘Where we head in the future, we’re not able to talk about.'”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “LinuxGuy and Mac Prodigal Son” for the heads up.]
[UPDATED: 11:59pm EDT: Added InformationWeek excerpts and link.]